Mars isn’t a bright, fire-engine red, but the iron oxide in its rocks makes it appear redder than other planets, especially ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured NGC 346, a star-forming region about 210,000 light years away. One of the features of ...

NASA recently revealed that improved observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have sharpened the asteroid's projected path.

Webb has captured a frigid exoplanet in a wildly tilted orbit, revealing a system shaped by past planetary violence and ...

While dark matter can’t be seen directly because it doesn’t give off or reflect light, its gravity can bend light from other ...

A team led by astronomers at Leiden University in the Netherlands and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Virginia (U ...

But the agency may never have had to confront a challenge like the one it faces now: a Trump administration budget plan that would cut funding for NASA’s science programs by nearly 50 percent and its ...

Astronomers studying rare star-forming galaxies reveal how the chaotic past of the universe may mirror the future of the ...

This material causes Titania and Oberon to have darker and redder leading hemispheres. These outer moons effectively shield ...

Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope set out to study how Uranus’s magnetic field interacts with its largest ...

For space fans, June has something extra to enjoy, as NASA recently released “Cosmic Dawn,” a new “intimate access” ...

Inflation and budget issues are threatening to hobble NASA’s most in-demand telescopes.